Dark Places
By: Kate Grenville
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2001
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1. The House of Special Purpose
By: John Boyne
4.18
Format: 469 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Absolutist, a propulsive novel of the Russian Revolution and the fate of the… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"A man was standing at the end of the hallway, just outside an open door, from where a great light shone, illuminating him almost as a god."-John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose
"It has always astonished me, Georgy Daniilovich, that those who are most repulsed by autocratic or dictatorial rule are among the first to eliminate their enemies once they take on the mantle of powe…"-John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose
"It's enough to make me laugh. I close the door behind me and sit down again, considering this, and truly, I find it so funny that I laugh until I cry. And when the tears come I think aah... So this i…"-John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose
"It occurs to me that even though Zoya and I are both still alive, my life is already over. She will be taken from me soon and there will be no reason for me to continue without her. We are one person…"-John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose
2. The Secret Keeper
By: Kate Morton
4.15
Format: 484 pages, Hardcover
During a summer party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicols… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven"-Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper
"I was an only child. It was lonely." "I was one of four. It was noisy."-Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper
"Make sure you write it all down, now. Everything you see and think and feel. Your voice is your own, it matters."-Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper
"It was unsettling, Laurel thought, suppressing a shiver, how quickly a person's presence could be erased, how easily civilization gave way to wilderness."-Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper
3. The Accidental Tourist
By: Anne Tyler
0.00
Format: 798 pages, Paperback
Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is ground… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
4. Dirt Music
By: Tim Winton
0.00
Format: 194 pages,
Luther Fox, a loner, haunted by his past, makes his living as an illegal fisherman, a shamateur. Be… read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
- fiction
- novels
5. The Transit of Venus
By: Shirley Hazzard
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England t… read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
6. Dark Places
By: Kate Grenville
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2001 read more
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- australia
- novels
7. At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple, #11)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: 377 pages, Paperback
An old-fashioned London Hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out! When Miss Marple comes up … read more
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- fiction
8. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Miss Marple, #9)
By: Agatha Christie
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Greg… read more
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- fiction
9. The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
By: Agatha Christie
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Wickedness...such wickedness...." The dying woman turned to Father Gorman with agony in her eyes.… read more
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- fiction
"After all, the stupidest child can set a house on fire quite easily."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
"Being in love has a very bad effect on men - it seems to addle their wits."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
"People are so proud of wickedness. Odd, isn't it, that people who are good are never proud of it? That's where Christian humility comes in, I suppose. They don't even know they are good."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something LESS than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
10. Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
By: Kate Atkinson
3.80
Format: 389 pages, Paperback
In #1 of series, Jackson Brodie PI follows three 30-years cold, unconnected Cambridge family cases:… read more
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- fiction
"The only time you were safe was when you were dead."-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
"How do you know he's dead?' 'Because he's not breathing"-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
"It would be like a Hardy novel, before it all goes wrong."-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
"What a fantastic form of avoidance being a bride of Christ was."-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
11. Dead Simple (Roy Grace, #1)
By: Peter James
3.53
Format: 256 pages,
Michael Harrison had it all: good looks, charm, natural leadership, a wicked sense of humor, and no… read more
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12. True History of the Kelly Gang
By: Peter Carey
3.87
Format: 334 pages,
"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dea… read more
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13. Mullumbimby
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare from one of Australia's most admired Ind… read more
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14. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
By: Shankari Chandran
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- australia
- fiction
- historical fiction
15. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
16. Lola in the Mirror
By: Trent Dalton
4.41
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
- fiction
17. The Bookbinder
By: Pip Williams
4.07
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
18. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
19. Too Much Lip
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.06
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. Wise-cracking Ke… read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
- fiction
20. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
- fiction
- novels
21. Prima Facie
By: Suzie Miller
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie
22. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
- fiction
- novels
"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
23. Limberlost
By: Robbie Arnott
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- australia
- fiction
- historical fiction
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
24. Edenglassie
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- australia
- fiction
- historical fiction
25. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
26. Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)
By: John Banville
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder.… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"It's an actual fucking library, and there's a body in it!"-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)
"I'm a priest for Christ's sake - how can this be happening to me?"-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)
27. The Overstory
By: Richard Powers
4.12
Format: 502 pages, Paperback
The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning ev… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
"The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
"Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
"Trees fall with spectacular crashes. Planting is silent and growth invisible."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
28. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
29. Snow Country
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.71
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
1914: Young Anton Heideck has arrived in Vienna, eager to make his name as a journalist. While work… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I think perhaps the reincarnation is not of other men through me, but of myself at other times. I've been forced by circumstance into many separate lives."-Sebastian Faulks, Snow Country
30. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)
By: Chris Hammer
4.23
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more
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- australia
- fiction
- historical fiction
31. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
By: Holly Ringland
4.04
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more
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- australia
- fiction
"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
